Jester 1.6: Modern REST

I’m sticking this version number flag into the ground to bring attention to some
crucial Jester updates. Namely, full compatibility with IE7, Safari, and
Prototype 1.6. If you’ve been following Jester over on
GitHub, or its SVN trunk, then you’ve already gotten these,
some from as far back ago as January. There’s not a whole lot past those
compatibility fixes, but you can see what there is over at the commit list for
Jester at Github, which
naturally includes the commit history prior to Jester’s migration from SVN.

Jester, if you don’t remember, is a little JavaScript library we developed here
to act as a REST client.
We modeled it after ActiveResource and its syntax, released it a little over a
year ago this time, and it got a modest amount of attention. People seem to
widely appreciate its syntax, and a less wide but consistent core of people have
found some use out of it, and continue to contribute patches and bug
reports to the project. We
made a landing site, and a little walkthrough of
its syntax and uses there.

The next major development step would be to detach Jester from Prototype and
bridge it to JQuery and Mootools, if there’s community interest. Also, once
Firefox 3 comes out and has genuine cross site
XMLHttpRequests, that would
be interesting to support. Let me know any other features you think Jester
would benefit from, and might make it more useful to the JavaScript world at
large.